PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1742, 6 May 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. W. F. Massey (Prime Minislor) will leavo Oliakuno for Wellington io-ilav arriving lliis aitcrnooji by Mum Trunk express. The lion. H. JJ. Well will remain at Auckland during tho slay of (lie battleship Now Zeal Mid, anil will return to Wellington on Monday next. 'J'lie Hon. W. H. Herries is at Clinstchitrch. The Hon. Br. Poiuaro arrived from Normanby yesterday by the aew Plvmouth express. The Hon. J . ->1. Fisher will arrive from Sydney by tho I'limaroa on Wednesday. The Hon. \\. (lie Hon. A. L. Herdnian, and the Hon. H. H. Rhodes are in Wellington. Mr. A. G. Longworth, of Fox ton, lias been appointed an instructor in tlio Physical Education Department, in. placo of '.Mr. A. l)avis, who recently found it necessary io resign in order to proceed to England on private business. Mr. Longworth arrived in tho Dominion about eighteen months ago from Finland, where ho received his training as an instructor. As soon as he has completed tlio work upon which ho is now engaged in tho Court Of Appeal, the Hon. A. L. Herdman (Attorney-General) will go to Auckland, w'nero lie is to open n new Public Trust Office building. Probably ho will leave Wellington to-morrow, or on Thursday. Before returning to Wellington. Jlr. Herdnian will inspect the New Plymouth gaol and other prison establishments in tlio North Island which ho lias yet to visit in connection with the tour of investigation which he commeuccd some months ago. General Godlcv, who yesterday inspected the Territorial camp at Yaldhurst, Canterbury, is a passenger from the south by tho Jiararoa, duo this morning. Colonel E. S. Heard, cliicf of the Geno- ■ ral Staff, is at present on n tour of inspection in tho Auckland district. Ho will return to AVellugtoii 011 'lJiursday. Captain Estcourt is a passenger by tho Mararoa, duo this morning, from Lyttelton.

Mr. G. A. Pearson, locomotive engineer at Petone, who has received a transfer and promotion, to Addingtou, was yesterday presented by tho officers aud staff of tlio Wellington-Napier-Now Plymouth section with an oak chest of cutlery, inscribed. Mr. Bargh, Workshops manager, in ado tho presentation, aud referred to the growth of the railway work on this -section during tho eight years iu which Mr. Pearson had been at its head. Mr. Pearson returned thanks for the presentation, aud expressed regret at having to leave Petone. Cheers were then given for Mr. aud Mrs. Pearson. In tlio evening Mr. Pearson was tlio guest of the officers and stall' of tho Petone Workshops at a smoke concert, which was largely attended, aud at which ho received u travelling rug as a presentation from the Petone Workshops. Mr. Richardson, of Auckland, will take Mr. Pearson's placo at Petone.

Messrs. P. Y. Wales, of Dunedin, and William Crichton, of Wellington, tho architects appointed by the Auckland Grammar School Board to select designs for tho new school at Mount Eden, visited Auckland at tlio end of last week for the purposo of selecting the tlireo test designs.

Mr* George Lipsey, of Lipsey Park, . To Arolia ,aged 07 years, died last night. Deceased was tho ; pioneer settler of To Arolia, and owned considerable proporty'.

News 'was received by cablegram on Friday last of the death dn New York of Mi - . Arthur Temple Firth, of Auckland. Tho deceased was a son of tho lato Mr. j. C. Firth, tho original owner of tho Matainata Estate, and a very'old Auckland resident. Tho deceased left Auckland in 1911, and at tho timo of his death was conducting business in connection wiitli tho Voltibe Company, of Auckland. Mr. Firth was very well known in mining circles in Auckland. The deceased has three brothers in AucklandMessrs. K. C., W. T., and B. C. Firth. Dr. A. Itnmage, lato of Waitara, has commenced practice at Brooklyn. Mr. James Hall, 8.A., senior mathematical'and science master in Palmerston North High School, has been appointed a senior master in Wellington Collego. At yesterday's meeting of tho counc'l of the Chamber of Commerce Mr. J. L. M'Clintock (for Mr. 11. Hamilton, Vacuum Oil Co.), and Jlr. A. P. Green (for Mr. R. W. ICai'.c, of tlio Bank of Now Zealand) were elected members. Tito resignation of Jlr. A.. Harris (of Mandel, Harris, and Carr) was received. Dr. Morris de Growo, a German sportsman, is at present visiting Wellington. He has been deer-stalking ill ,the Nejson district, and is quite satisfied with his experiences. Later on Dr. do Growo intends to shoot big gamo in Java, Sumatra, and India. Mr. Herbert Linldater, of Messrs. Gray and Jackson's staff, was yestorday morning as a sorcitor of the Supremo Co'nrt by his Honour tho Chief Justice, on tho application of Mr. Gray, K.C. The Rev. Canon Hough, of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, who died last week, was'for more than a quarter of a century rector of St. Judo's, liandwick. • Ho was in his 70th year. ,About a fortnight before his death hd received a paralytic stroke, from which ho never rallied. Mi J. F. Bichard, Commonwealth ; Electoral Officer for Tasmania, died suddenly Inst week from heart trouble, aged fi-l years. Dr. Wright, Anglican Archbishop of Svdnev, who is at present visiting Mgland, accompanied by his wife and family, is expected to commcncc his return to' Sydney on May-18. Mr Nico H. Paling, Chev.ihcr of OimiKO Nassau, after IB years service as Vice-Consul for the Netherlands in Sidney, is relinquishing tuc position. Sir Henry John Wrixon, who died at . ICew, Victoria, on April 9, loft an estate valued at ,£20,515. Mrs. Goodall, nieco of Governor Jlacnuarie, of New South V ales, died at Toowoomba, Queensland, on April In. Deceased's husband, Captain U. it. Goodall (of "The Kings Own Borderers ) who died some years ago, was foi a long period a police magistrate m Queensland, principally stationed at the capital of the Darling Downs. Vr H C Robinson has resigned his position «s a member of tho Mastoton Trust Lands Trust. Mr illmi Cameron, manager for Mr. b. Mawie'v at Ditton Station, Wairarapa, died .smlenly yesterday morning. Ho was iiity-five years of age. Mr II L. Michel was last night unanimously re-elected chairman of the Holutika Harbour Board.-Press Association.

Mi- AY M- Nelson, engineer to tho Chris'tchurch Tramway Board, has resigned, and has rejoined tho staff ol tho Brisbane Tramway Company. Mr. L. .1. Turner, power-house superintendent, has been appointed to undertake tho immediate supervision of the other engineering departments, as well as nis onn. Press Association. Aii- E L. ChalTev, a member of tho council of the New' Zealand Amateur Athlete Association, was last wpM l )lc ' honied bv his fellow-members of the council with"a silver cgg-slawl. the prcsen-t-itioii, which was to mark the occasion if Mr' Chan-ey's marriage, was mado by tlio president (Mr. A. Jlairjull). < Air. Justico Sim was a passenger for tho touth by tho Maori last evening. Tho He v. W. I'ord-llutcliiiisou js expected to arrive from tho south by tho Alararoa this morning.